Cravat holder



July 23, 1935.

A. EKANDER CRAVAT HOLDER Filed Sept. 14, 1934 INVENTOR: [71/5 MPH 5 HNDEE ATTORNEY Patented July 23, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,008,666 CRAVAT HOLDER Gustaf A. Ekander, Philadelphia, Pa.

Application September 14, 1934, Serial No. 743,981

Claims.

This invention relates to cravat holders and has for an object to provide improved means for invisibly holding a cravat against being blow about.

5 A further object of the invention is to provide means which will be fixed to the cravat and provided with spring pressed means for connecting to the shirt front or the like.

A further object of the invention is to provide in a cravat holder, a pin which serves to hold together the two parts usually found in a cravat of modern type, and to provide means for attaching to a shirt front or the like.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pm which may be inserted through the superposed narrow end and wide end of a cravat of modern type, the pin being such that at the election of the user it may pass entirely through the wide part to show upon the front or may be passed through only the underlying part and,

therefore, being invisible from the front, and with a spring pressed clasp for attaching to the shirt front.

' The invention, therefore, comprises a spring pressed clasp of such size and construction as to slip over a clasp'upon the edge of the pleat of a shirt front and provided with a pin of the safety pin type which may be inserted through any elected part of the cravat, and after so being attached to the cravat, the clasp employed to maintain the cravat in position.

The drawing illustrates an embodiment of the invention and the views therein are as follows:-

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of a fragment of a conventional cravat and shirt front showing in dotted lines the position and operation of the cravat holder,

Figure 2 is a view of the cravat holder in front elevation, Figure 3 is a view of the cravat holder in edge elevation,

Figure 4 is a view of the cravat holder in end elevation showing it connected with a fabric representing a cravat, and

Figure 5 is a plan view of the under member of the clasp.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

At the present time, cravats follow a general plan of having a wide end it, and a narrow end M which as ordinarily employed each consists of a number of layers of fabrics, and in ordinary use, the narrow end is beneath the wider end, the wide end only being intended for exhibition. It is also well known that such cravats, blow about in the wind to the annoyance of the wearer.

The present invention comprises of a clasp made up of an under section l2 and an outer or upper section l3. The under section as shown at 5 Figure 5 is merely a bar having ears I upstanding therefrom for coaction with the ears l5 of the section #3, said ears being united by a pintle forming a hinge with a spring I"! employed in the usual well known manner. The coacting 10 ends of the members i2 and 13 are provided with teeth l8 and i9 respectively, for making gripping contact with the pleat 20 of a shirt front.

The member I3 has outstanding laterally from its opposite sides, arms 2! and 22. One of which, 15 as arm 22, carries a pin 23, the point of which engages under the hook end 24 of the arm 2|.

The pin is provided with a spring 25 which tends to throw the pin to the dotted line position 23 as shown at Figure 4 in which position it 20 may be inserted through one or more thicknesses of the fabric, making up the cravat. As indicated at Figure 4, the pin is inserted through only a single fabric and is, therefore, hidden from view as also indicated at Figure 1. It is obvious that 25 if the pin should be made of material such as would be desirable in view, it may be inserted entirely through the fabric to show upon the front.

In operation, the narrow part it of the cravat 30 is placed in proper position at the back of the wider part I0 and the pin 23 then inserted through so many thicknesses of the fabric as the user may elect and is then hooked under the hook 24 as shown at Figure 4. The clasp is now opened 35 as shown in dotted line position at Figure 3 and the under section 52 slipped beneath the front pleat 20 of the shirt whereupon the clasp is closed by the spring I1 and retains the cravat in position. An advantage of this type of cravat 40 holder is that the holder is fixed to the cravat and should the clasp become displaced, the cravat holder is not lost but maintains its connection with the cravat.

Also the insertion of the pin may take place 45 while the cravat is in such position as to be in full view of the user, as for instance, turning up the combined ends of the parts 96 and H to bring them into full view for the purpose of applying the pin. After the application of the pin, 50 the clasp may be attached conveniently.

Of course, the cravat holder herein illustrated may be modified and changed in various ways without departing from the invention herein set forth and hereafter claimed. 55

I claim:

1. A cravat holder comprising a clasp consisting of two hinged members, spring biased to close and formed with gripping portions adapted to engage a fabric, and a pin carried by one of said members in close proximity to the gripping portion thereon.

2. A cravat holder comprising a clasp having two hinged members each formed with complemental gripping parts adapted to clasp a fabric therebetween, and a pin carried by one of said members arranged with the gripping part thereof in substantial alignment with the extremities of the pin.

3. A cravat holder comprising hingedly connected members, a spring tending to close the members, and a pin carried by one of said members extending transversely of the member and provided with means for holding the pin at safety, said hingedly connected members being formed with cooperating gripping members adjacent to the pin.

2,008,666 r 4. A cravat holder comprising hin'gedly cornnected spring pressed members having extremities formed with teeth whereby they are adapted to grip a fabric one of said members being provided with transversely extending arms adjacent to the teeth on said arm, and a pin carried by one .of said arms, the other of said arms providing means for engaging the point of the pin.

5. A cravat holder comprising a pair of hingedly connected members, a spring tending to close the members to clasping position, said members being formed with interacting gripping portions; arms extending transversely of one of the members and having extremities in substantial alignment with the gripping portion of said arm, a spring carried by one of said members and terminating in a pin part, and the other of said transversely extending arms providing means for engaging the point of the pin.

GUsTAF A. EKANDER. 

